Photo: London is burning

Cars and garbage bins set on fire by rioters in Hackney, east London, Monday Aug. 8, 2011. A chaotic wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since the 1980s. Photo: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis

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